Marcela Bermudez focuses her practice in business immigration law. She advises and represents multinational companies, as well as individual clients including scientists, researchers, professional nurses and artists in connection with a variety of employment-based immigrant and nonimmigrant matters. Marcela has also represented individual clients seeking family-based benefits.
Marcela also focuses on global business immigration. She is a member of the International Talent Mobility Group. She works with multinational corporations throughout the world to strategize and facilitate the transfer of its employees and their dependents for temporary assignments abroad, including obtaining the necessary residence and work permits, visas and post-entry registration.
Prior to joining Wormer, Kiely, Galef & Jacobs, LLP, Marcela was an associate at Greenberg Traurig. Marcela concentrates her work in Latin America.
J.D. Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 2000
B.A. Rutgers University, Rutgers College, 1997
University of Valencia, 1994-1995
Co-author (with Phillip Pillar and Patricia Gannon), “New IRS Audit Policies May Focus on HR Departments”, SHRM Magazine, September 4, 2009
Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
NY Chapter Corporate Practice Committee
NY Chapter Citizenship Day Committee
Member, New York State Bar Association
